And this is a national war, a national war—just from the name you can tell, it's a battle fought with the strength of the whole country. How could it possibly be stingy with expenses?
Impossible. Even a rotten ship still has three thousand nails, doesn't it.
Besides, in the Yan of today, the Yan Emperor is pushing hard for the campaign against Chu, and with Ji Chengjue's talent for stripping land to the bone, there's no way the logistics would suddenly sputter out right after the war starts.
"To answer Lord Zheng: grain, fodder, and armaments aren't lacking. What we're short of is laborers. This summer, several rounds of torrential rain came down on the upper reaches of the Wang River."
"The embankment broke?"
"No, it hasn't."
"Hasn't broken, then…"
